Reading Design (2013–)
Filed under online resource | Tags: · architecture, critical design, design, fashion design, graphic design, industrial design, theory, urbanism
“Reading Design is an online archive of critical writing about design. The idea is to embrace the whole of design, from architecture and urbanism to product, fashion, graphics and beyond. The texts featured here date from the nineteenth century right up to the present moment but each one contains something which remains relevant, surprising or interesting to us today.
Reading Design is not a magazine or a journal and many or most of the texts here will have been published before. They might be papers, transcriptions of lectures, articles, essays, academic texts, photo essays, sketches or blog posts but the aim is to collate these texts in one place to build a resource which we hope will become invaluable to designers, academics, researchers, professionals and all those with any interest in design at all. It is a library of design which we hope is able to use the enormous capacity of the internet in a way in which it is not currently being used.
Reading Design is a non-profit making venture aiming to make pivotal texts available to all and to provoke, delight, enlighten, inspire, inform and occasionally infuriate.”
Editor-in-chief: Edwin Heathcote
Associate editor: Krisztina Heathcote
Hannah Arendt Collection (2006–)
Filed under online resource | Tags: · philosophy, reading
A growing collection of now 90 digitised books from Hannah Arendt’s personal library with her unique annotations, marginalia and other markings.
Project of Stevenson Library, Bard College, started c2006
via Sorin
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Susanne Knaller (ed.): Realität und Wirklichkeit in der Moderne. Texte zu Literatur, Kunst, Fotografie und Film (2013) [German]
Filed under online resource | Tags: · art, art theory, cinema, film, literary theory, literature, media, modernity, philosophy, photography, reality, theory
An online anthology of 78 theoretical and philosophical texts from the last two centuries presenting a range of conceptions of the reality, in particular exploring the ambiguity of the German notions of Realität and Wirklichkeit. The website also allows reading of the texts through occurrences of 40 selected concepts.
Maintained by Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Open Access
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